Strong For Hillary

Ordinarily this young website posts polling information at the right hand side column. But lately the noise about the strength of Hillary support and the alleged lack of love for Hillary is getting a great deal of big media play and we thought we would take a few minutes to debunk this bull… er… misinformation.

The poll we want to take a look at we chose not because it is one of the many great polls for Hillary, but on the contrary because it is one of the polls in which she is doing merely OK. But this is what the poll tells us: Hillary’s support is very strong and Democrats at the end of the day want her to be the nominee. And, Democrats like her, they really like her. The poll is today’s Garin-Hart-Yang poll (PDF)(D); conducted April 4 through April 12 for Communities for Quality Education; it surveyed 801 likely Dem primary voters. The margin of error is +/- 3.5%. The racial breakdown is 53% black and 45% white.

Look at Hillary’s numbers and compare them to the other candidate’s numbers. Her “strong” support among all is 79%, the strongest support of the lot, and among African-Americans her “strong” support is 84% (no one else comes close, not even the African-American in the race). Her favorable/unfavorable numbers are good too – so much for the “people don’t like her, she is too polarizing” nonsense.